Museum 100
Celebrating 100 Years of the Manx Museum through audio from the past.
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Episodes
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MUSEUM 100 08 DECEMBER 2023
Friday, 8 December 2023
In this final podcast in the series, MNH Curators, Katie King, Laura McCoy and Allison Fox, talk to Howard Caine about the M100 podcasts which have been running throughout the year, what they had chosen to feature and the work of MNH and its collections
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MUSEUM 100 04 DECEMBER 2023
Monday, 4 December 2023
Library and Archives Assistant at MNH, Kim Holden, looks at a poster for the Hengler's Cirque Variete poster from the 1870s
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MUSEUM 100 02 DECEMBER 2023
Saturday, 2 December 2023
Archivist within the library and archive teams at MNH, Wendy Thirkettle, gives us the story behind a picture depicting the wreck of the herring fleet.
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MUSEUM 100 29 NOVEMBER 2023
Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Assistant Curator at MNH, Anna Murphy, talks about a watercolour painting of the House of Industry in Douglas and the story behind house.
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MUSEUM 100 24 NOVEMBER 2023
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Assistant Curator at MHH, Hannah Murphy digs into the story of the Manx spade . .
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MUSEUM 100 21 NOVEMBER 2023
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, with the history of the White Tailed Eagle on the Isle of Man
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MUSEUM 100 17 NOVEMBER 2023
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about the Island's native sheep - the Loaghtan.
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MUSEUM 100 13 NOVEMBER 2023
Monday, 13 November 2023
Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about the fall and hoped for rise of what used to be one of the Island's most abundant farmland birds.
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MUSEUM 100 06 NOVEMBER 2023
Monday, 6 November 2023
Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about one of the most iconic objects in the collection - the Giant Deer skeleton.
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MUSEUM 100 30 OCTOBER 2023
Monday, 30 October 2023
Curator of Natural History for MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about the largest in the collection .. .the skeleton of a Sei whale.
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MUSEUM 100 27 OCTOBER 2023
Friday, 27 October 2023
Library and Archives Assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, looks at the photographs of GB Cowin - and tries to work out why she hates them so much!
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MUSEUM 100 23 OCTOBER 2023
Monday, 23 October 2023
Library and Archives Assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, tells us about a beautiful plan from 1799 used in a land dispute involving the Kentraugh Estate.
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MUSEUM 100 20 OCTOBER 2023
Friday, 20 October 2023
Digital Collections Assistant with MNH, Katie Clugston, gives us the story of the life and films of Joseph Royston
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MUSEUM 100 16 OCTOBER 2023
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Digital Collections Assistant with MNH, Katie Clugstone, describes some of the more personal affects which were salvaged from the wreck of HMS Racehorse which sank over 200 years ago off the coast of Langness
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MUSEUM 100 13 OCTOBER 2023
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Collections Information Manager for MNH, Jude Dicken, gives us a taste of the MNH Sound Archives with a recording of a herring fisherman recalling his work on the boats in the early 1900s
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MUSEUM 100 09 OCTOBER 2023
Monday, 9 October 2023
Library and Archives Conservator at MNH, Emma Le Cornu, describes an ink and watercolour wash drawing done by Phillip Moore Callow-Kermode - and the work needed for it to go on display. A little spit and polish really can do wonders . . . !
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MUSEUM 100 06 OCTOBER 2023
Friday, 6 October 2023
Emma Le Cornu, the Library and Archives Conservator at MHH tells us about a large 1940s poster advertising the Isle of Man and the work she has had to carry out to conserve it.
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MUSEUM 100 02 OCTOBER 2023
Monday, 2 October 2023
Curator of Archaeology at MNH. Alison Fox talks tells us the story of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and a recently discovered artefact which may be associated with him
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MUSEUM 100 29 SEPTEMBER 2023
Friday, 29 September 2023
Alison Fox, Curator of Archaeology at MNH talks about the stories behind old suggane stones once used to tie down thatched roofs on many buildings
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MUSEUM 100 25 SEPTEMBER 2023
Monday, 25 September 2023
Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, discusses the significance of one of the smallest artefacts in the National collection - a small broken piece of baked clay
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MUSEUM 100 21 SEPTEMBER 2023
Friday, 22 September 2023
Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, looks at a brass lamp cover with the story of the the sinking of the SS Romeo - sunk in the Irish Sea . .
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MUSEUM 100 18 SEPTEMBER 2023
Monday, 18 September 2023
Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, tells us about an incredible Bronze Age treasure, discovered in a grave found just outside Kirk Michael . .. .
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MUSEUM 100 15 SEPTEMBER 2023
Friday, 15 September 2023
Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, considers the importance of the Island's crosses and the legacy of preservation work done a hundred years ago . .
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MUSEUM 100 11 SEPTEMBER 2023
Monday, 11 September 2023
Curator of Archaeology at MHK, Alison Fox, describes an enormous slab of carved red sandstone believed to be the coffin lid of possibly one of the great Norse kings . ..
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MUSEUM 100 08 SEPTEMBER 2023
Friday, 8 September 2023
Curator of Art and Social History, Katie King, discusses a reel to reel paper recorder which was once used by the Folk Life Survey recorders - and contrary to popular belief, not still used by Manx Radio
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MUSEUM 100 04 SEPTEMBER 2023
Monday, 4 September 2023
Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, tells the story behind some relics relating to one of the Isle of Man's most curious characters; Arthur Caley, the Manx Giant.
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MUSEUM 100 01 SEPTEMBER
Friday, 1 September 2023
Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, with a record player which once belonged to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees - the most famous musical stars yet produced by the IOM
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MUSEUM 100 28 AUGUST 2023
Friday, 25 August 2023
Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, looks at a couple of exhibits from the long-gone amusement centre which once sat on Onchan Head - White City.
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MUSEUM 100 25 AUGUST 2023
Friday, 25 August 2023
Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, describes an unusual decorative cabinet known as a Spar Box.
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MUSEUM 100 22 AUGUST 2023
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
Curator of Art and Social History at MHH, Katie King, tells us about a grand dolls house made in the Knockaloe Internee camp during the first war.